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Colite aigue revelant une maladie de Wegener
Lebas, Eglantine; Gielen, Sabine; Nguyen, Minh Ngoc et al.
2006In Revue Médicale de Liège, 61 (3), p. 163-8
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Abstract :
[en] We report the case of a 52 year old man who was hospitalized within a context of a persistent deterioration of his general condition. He was suspected of having a chronic inflammatory colitis. A pulmonary radiography revealed the presence of voluminous bilateral excavated masses with hydro-aerical levels. After having refuted among others a suspicion of tuberculosis, the results of a thoracic percutaneous transpleural lung aspiration by needle under tomodensitometric control steered our diagnosis towards a vascularitis of the Wegener disease type. A treatment with corticotherapy in large doses completed with cyclophosphamid allowed for clinical, biological and radiological improvement. Wegener's granulomatosis usually starts in an insidious manner with febrile episodes and an impairment of the general condition associated with inflammatory biological signs, as observed in our patient. After these warning symptoms, come ORL and/or pulmonary and/or renal impairment, which represent the classical triad of diffused GW. However a certain number of particularities unusual for that diagnosis characterized our patient and prompted the discussion of this case.
Disciplines :
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Author, co-author :
Lebas, Eglantine ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Dermatologie
Gielen, Sabine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Hépato-gastroentérologie
Nguyen, Minh Ngoc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > LTAS - Infographie
Ghaye, Benoît ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Imagerie médicale
Bartsch, Pierre ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté de médecine) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Médecine)
Belaiche, Jacques ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Hépato-gastroentérologie
Language :
French
Title :
Colite aigue revelant une maladie de Wegener
Alternative titles :
[en] Acute Colitis in Wegener's Disease: A Case Report
Publication date :
March 2006
Journal title :
Revue Médicale de Liège
ISSN :
0370-629X
eISSN :
2566-1566
Publisher :
Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
61
Issue :
3
Pages :
163-8
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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